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Every now and then we see a small batch of fruit that stands above the rest. Something that jumps out with a particular quality or attribute that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder what would happen if you could bottle that batch just as it is. Usually, this is where the accountants step in with their logical reasoning - scales of economy, cost allocations and all that other sensible stuff - but when we found a few rows of exceptional fruit in one of our premier blocks in 2014, we decided to keep the batch separate anyway!

The resulting wine was as spectacular as we had hoped, but from this small batch, one single barrel stood above all. The oak worked seamlessly with the fruit, and no matter how many different combinations with other barrels we tried to blend, this one single barrel remained on a higher level.

Now this brings us back to the accountants! We already knew they probably wouldn’t like the idea of a single batch, so we would have to be out of our minds to think they would agree to bottling a single barrel. The solution? We three winemakers took it upon ourselves to hand bottle, by gravity, this single barrel late one evening, with no fining and no filtering; just as it looked in barrel.

This wine shows incredible texture and weight, soft tannins and rich red fruits. We have held this limited bottling in our cellars for an additional two years, to allow the wine to develop towards its full potential. However, it will reward those patient types well into the next decade. 275 bottles available for $150 each. BUY NOW

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